Friday, June 12, 2015

Is it related to Android? No! To Java? No! To GNOME then? No, not directly. Did I spin up a company? It could have been possible, but no, it's neither that!

So what am I upto?

It is great pleasure to announce that I now work for IBM, India.

I signed the joining letter on the 12th of May, 2015. Thereafter, I have been busy setting up my work environment on my IBM provided Lenovo ThinkPad and acquainting to the new(not very) city of Bangalore. I stick to Ubuntu for my development Linux distribution there so that I don't waste time on the learning curve. I installed Ubuntu with a bunch of software needed for my official work.

My first assignment is to build and install the upstream kernel master and boot-test and configure that using a Virtual machine. Sounds exciting, huh? :D
So, I installed my first Ubuntu guest virtual machine on top of my host Ubuntu following these steps and am getting comfortable with using the Virtual Machine Manager. I also had to enable BIOS settings for native KVM acceleration (Virtualization Technology and VT-d feature) for the VM to run at a usable speed. Then I followed simple kernel build steps (which I reserve for some other blog-post) and after some updates to grub configuration file, I could explicitly boot into a freshly built upstream kernel 14.1.0-rc5+.

Though my development machine is an Intel x86 machine but most of my patches are going to be tested on Power 8 machines eg. for enabling some functionality on PPC machines or checking some software compatiblity for PPC architecture, so if you don't have access to those machines, you might have to believe what I have to say.

I will describe my kernel fiddles and contributions to other open source tools/utilities in the coming posts so stay tuned! I'll mostly post patches with the email id: chandni[AT_SPAMFREE]linux.vnet.ibm.com

Disclaimer: The opinions shared on this blog are mine alone and do not implicitly represent the views of my employer, the GNOME Foundation, Planet FLOSS India, tuxmachines.org or anyone else who has syndicated its content.

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A proud patriot of India, born in Kanpur and brought up in Lucknow. An Asian bringing GNOME to Asia as a GNOME Asia organizing committee member and a world citizen making it a happier place to live by working on open source software. 2010 onward, a contributor to open source projects. 2012-2014, a member of the GNOME Foundation.

She has always had a strong desire for coding and going with her instincts, currently hacks on Linux Kernel and related tools under the flagship of IBM's Linux Technology Center. She left no chance in life of learning what interests her in terms of computing, be it languages, tools or algorithms. She loves puzzles and creates low-complexity, elegant solutions to any problem. Recent experiments have demonstrated her to be possessing sound public-addressing skills too.

To take a break, she prefers changing her surroundings which provides her an insight about the history, culture and discoveries pertinent to the place and its inhabitants. She has toured a lot of India, covering almost the whole of it, and some places beyond her motherland. Each new place opened to her a whole new world of knowledge and memories inexplicable.